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2016-12-09T21:00:08.000000Z
Lacma’s winter show, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time, parallels the European modern master with Mexico’s most revered muralistAlthough they are both credited with inventing cubism, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque spent most of their lives arguing over top billing. Henri Matisse, who g...

2016-12-09T18:12:04.000000Z
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum recalls a time when portraits were seen as a way of remembering and celebrating life outside of mere memory Continue reading...

2016-12-09T18:05:14.000000Z
The annual National Geographic nature photographer of the year attracts thousands of entries from across the globe. Here’s a selection of the winning images Continue reading...

2016-12-09T17:57:34.000000Z
After a year of extraordinary success, Marten has vowed to share her winnings and chastised the industry for its privilegeWalking, according to Helen Marten, is nothing short of an erotic experience, “like unfolding a love letter; you’re stepping in and out of intimacies, the secret bits, the dirty ...

2016-12-09T16:22:37.000000Z
Architect Peter Eisenman has said he couldn’t build his Berlin Holocaust memorial today, as Europe has become too antisemitic. But the very way culture has framed the Holocaust has allowed right-wing populism to flourish“I believe my Holocaust memorial in Berlin could no longer be built today,” the ...

2016-12-09T16:18:48.000000Z
Industry push for titles responding to this year’s shocking votes in the US and UK prompts raft of comedies and sober analysesPublishers are rushing out a raft of titles to meet demand among readers traumatised by the election of Donald Trump and the aftermath of the Brexit referendum. Titles range ...

2016-12-09T16:18:23.000000Z
The first sighting in the wild of Matt Reeves’ forthcoming new entry in the Planet of the Apes franchise makes it look like a sombre, heavy-duty war filmLike the original 1968-73 series, the new Planet of the Apes films are building into a franchise of quietly significant proportions. War for the Pl...

2016-12-09T16:08:21.000000Z
Sending their enormous combined fanbase into meltdown, I Don’t Wanna Live Forever is the first new music from Swift this yearTaylor Swift and former One Direction member Zayn Malik have redeemed 2016 for their fans, releasing a surprise new song together for the soundtrack to Fifty Shades Darker.I D...

2016-12-09T16:01:54.000000Z
From the all-bro jocks and silent women of Everybody Wants Some!! to Bridget Jones’s rejection of science, these are the films that failed to take on cinema’s push for inclusivityThis was the year when the news became a headache to liberals everywhere, revealing that we had consistently backed the w...

2016-12-09T16:00:33.000000Z
As a tenant in a space being targeted after the Ghost Ship fire, I am seeing first hand the wrong-headed panic and finger pointing now gripping the cityOn Friday, at least 36 people died when an east Oakland warehouse known as Ghost Ship caught fire during a night intended for music and joyous expre...

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TechCrunch

2016-12-10T01:52:16.000000Z
The U.S. Department of Commerce is opening six new international markets for its Commercial Digital Attaché program, according to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker who spoke with TechCrunch today in San Francisco. The attaché program, which began in March this year, establishes commerci...

2016-12-09T23:37:45.000000Z
Many in the industry believe the next frontier for VR is web-based experiences that can be visited and absorbed across platforms. There are still quite a lot of unknowns when it comes to WebVR but Oculus is looking to start shedding some of the mystery through its own browser. Today, the company la...

2016-12-09T23:00:44.000000Z
Wait, what? Yes, you read correctly. “Data” and “minimization,” two words that have rarely been used in the same sentence, now represent one of the critical product design rules we must apply if we’re to build products that deliver value, meaning and engagement to the human beings we aim to serve. ...

2016-12-09T21:56:37.000000Z
From Brexit to bionic arms, our lineup of speakers at Disrupt London 2016 gave us awesome insight into a variety of different topics. In case you missed it, the TechCrunch social team compiled the 15 most memorable quotes from the event. Read More

2016-12-09T20:39:04.000000Z
Segment helps businesses manage all their data from services like Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Salesforce — and send that data to a variety of destinations, whether it’s an attribution product or a data warehouse. The company announced yesterday that it’s expanding its offerings by integrating wi...

2016-12-09T19:00:43.000000Z
As the world was collectively watching results of the 2016 election , we got a barrage of emails from people congratulating our AI for predicting a Trump win. To be very clear, our AI did not call a Trump win, per se, but rather conditions that would support a Trump or a Hillary win. Read More

2016-12-09T18:46:20.000000Z
President Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to conduct a complete review of the hacks and leaks that led up to and may have influenced the presidential election, according to White House homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco. “The President has directed the Intelligence C...

2016-12-09T17:41:15.000000Z
The promises of the cloud era have been many, but when it comes to hardware, most people have preferred to keep their personal PCs on-hand or on-location. Sixa is aiming to free the PC and move computing to the cloud with its low-latency virtual machines geared toward developers. The recent Y Combi...

2016-12-09T17:36:10.000000Z
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder visited the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, MI, which honors the automotive past, to sign a bill that aims to enable the automotive future. The law creates regulations for testing, using and selling autonomous vehicles in the state and clarifies how these vehicles...

2016-12-09T17:29:54.000000Z
Early this morning Samsung announced plans to finally extinguish the on-going fire that is the Note 7 once and for all here in the States by way of a software update that won’t allow the troubled phone to charge at all. Apparently not everyone involved is onboard with the move. Verizon (the parent ...

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2016-12-10T00:15:16.000000Z
Trump’s pick for labor chief, the CEO of Hardee's and Carl’s Jr., likes the idea. Despite Donald Trump’s promise to create more jobs if elected president, his pick for labor secretary, Andy Puzder, the CEO of the fast-food chains Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, is keen on the idea of replacing food service...

2016-12-09T20:31:17.000000Z
Project Wing won’t be profitable in the U.S. for years, if it even takes off. Project Wing, the drone delivery program piloted under Alphabet, the parent company of Google, wants to open a serious delivery service. Wing is a project of the search giant’s moonshot division, X, formerly called Google...

2016-12-09T18:49:11.000000Z
“Life is too short to not be true to yourself.” Bill Maris, who founded Google Ventures and left as its CEO earlier this year, was in the midst of raising a new fund of just over $230 million focused on health care, but it’s not happening.
When I pinged Maris to see where this effort stood today, he...

2016-12-09T16:27:13.000000Z
Especially if they’re Trump voters. Here’s a question I never thought I’d ask: Do you think Hillary Clinton is connected to a child sex ring being run out of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.?
If you voted for Donald Trump, there’s a decent chance you think it’s true. Or, at least, you’re not sure, one...

2016-12-09T16:00:01.000000Z
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed four bills that regulate the testing, development and eventually the sale of self-driving cars. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed four bills into law on Friday that would create the first comprehensive statewide self-driving regulations in the U.S.
The bills, introd...

2016-12-09T14:00:05.000000Z
At least one of Jack Dorsey’s companies appears to be on solid footing. Last November, Square priced its IPO well below its private-market valuation at $9 a share, turning it into a media punching bag and a poster child for what seemed like an overly frothy private-company investment market.
Today, ...

2016-12-09T13:00:01.000000Z
Almost 20 percent of Instagram users say they watch ‘Stories’ every day. How is Instagram’s Snapchat Stories clone doing?
Some 18 percent of U.S. Instagram users surveyed by RBC said they watch Stories daily, and 53 percent watch them at least monthly, according to a research report published this w...

2016-12-09T12:05:58.000000Z
The company has raked in $1.4 billion in funding at a valuation of $4.5 billion. Secretive augmented-reality startup Magic Leap dazzled consumers, recruited employees and attracted $1.4 billion in funding using videos created with special effects and technology that will not make it to commercial re...

2016-12-09T11:30:01.000000Z
Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Lauren Goode and Dan Seifert discuss on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
If you want to automate your home with “smart home” gadgets, and you’re not a super-geek, watch out. Incautious consumers, like one listener who wrote into Too Embarrassed to Ask, may buy devices t...

2016-12-08T22:30:01.000000Z
Match Group CEO Greg Blatt is taking over as CEO of Tinder. Tinder CEO Sean Rad is switching jobs again.
Rad, the Tinder co-founder who was pushed out as CEO in early 2015 before returning to the job six months later, is leaving the CEO role once again. Rad will take over as Tinder’s chairman, with...

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2016-12-09T20:39:04.000000Z
Segment helps businesses manage all their data from services like Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Salesforce — and send that data to a variety of destinations, whether it’s an attribution product or a data warehouse. The company announced yesterday that it’s expanding its offerings by integrating wi...

2016-12-09T17:06:47.000000Z
Jason Citron, who previously founded and sold the early mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, returned to gaming startups with the launch of Discord in May 2015. This voice and text chat app for gamers — a challenger to incumbents like Skype and Teamspeak — has since grown to 25 million registere...

2016-12-09T14:00:08.000000Z
Google is disrupting yet another industry by including light-weight services directly within search results. This time, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, with Google testing out movie ratings from within search itself. Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that the feature is currently just an experiment,...

2016-12-08T23:12:27.000000Z
Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, first noted by The Verge. The company is said to be retaining mostly engineers as it notified its team of about 50 empl...

2016-12-08T22:30:17.000000Z
Today, Tinder is launching a new M&amp;A branch of the company called Swipe Ventures, which will be led by Sean Rad. As part of the launch, Rad will step down as Tinder CEO and become chairman of both Tinder and Swipe Ventures, with Match CEO and Chairman Greg Blatt swapping out as Tinder chairman ...

2016-12-08T20:48:54.000000Z
BuzzFeed has a new vice president leading its data science team.
Gilad Lotan has a long résumé in the field, having most recently served as chief data scientist at New York-based startup studio Betaworks, and before that working in data-related roles at SocialFlow, Microsoft and Endemol.
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2016-12-08T19:00:52.000000Z
The education world has been transformed thanks to the power of technology. But not all communities have been privy to the benefits; low-income students are still shut out of the edtech revolution. The digital divide is no longer just about connectivity. Many edtech startups are not designed with t...

2016-12-08T18:40:13.000000Z
French startup Molotov launched five months ago, but a key feature had yet to go live. Molotov users can now bookmark TV shows and movies in the cloud so that they can watch them later. That’s not all, the startup has also raised $23.3 million (€22 million). I’ve already written quite a few words a...

2016-12-08T18:34:02.000000Z
Nationally, bars today lose billions of dollars from improperly managed alcohol inventory. These losses add up quickly as a result of oversized pours, spills and even theft. Nectar, a stealth connected-device startup operating out of a Palo Alto dentist’s office (of all places), just locked down a ...

2016-12-08T16:59:54.000000Z
Hardware kits, internet-connected toys and robots that teach kids to code are now commonplace. But Osmo, an early entrant in IoT toys, is pulling ahead of the pack with funding and partnerships with top names in the field. Specifically, Osmo has raised $24 million in new venture funding from Mattel...

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Lifehacker

2016-12-10T01:00:00.000000Z
Health and fitness are pretty important topics. And you seem to think so, too. From learning how to craft your own bodyweight workout, to how little sleep you can get away with, to what it takes to fake a fitness ‘before and after’ photo, these are our most popular health and fitness posts of 2016.R...

2016-12-10T00:00:00.000000Z
Making a minute-by-minute itinerary for your weekend might sound like a great way to get the most out of your days off, but a recent study suggests that it actually makes everything you do less fun.Read more...

2016-12-09T23:30:00.000000Z
Yahoo has a new iOS app called Yahoo Answers Now through which you can ask your questions and receive answers from people with relevant expertise. Our prayers have finally been Yahoo Answered.Read more...

2016-12-09T23:00:00.000000Z
If you went a little overboard at the open bar of your big company party, this trick will get your suit, dress, or other un-launderables looking fresh and puke-free again.Read more...

2016-12-09T22:30:00.000000Z
Need an upgrade to that boring old thermometer outside the kitchen window? Adafruit put together a guide for a wonderfully compact little battery powered weather display.Read more...

2016-12-09T21:30:00.000000Z
If you need to quickly redial the last number you called on your iPhone, you can always just pop into the recent calls list, but OS X Daily points out an even faster way is to simply tap the big green phone button again.Read more...

2016-12-09T21:00:00.000000Z
Ever wished you had a portable projector that was already loaded up with software so you could stream movies? YouTuber Novaspirit Tech wanted just that, so he crammed a Raspberry Pi Zero inside a cheap projector. Read more...

2016-12-09T20:00:00.000000Z
A reusable menstrual cup is a great alternative to tampons or other menstrual products, but finding one that fits perfectly can be tricky. The folks at The Sweethome tested a bunch of them, and figured out which ones are best for short, long, and wide vaginas. Read more...

2016-12-09T19:30:00.000000Z
‘Tis the season for all sorts of parties, and—while I love throwing a seasonal soiree or two—I do not enjoy washing and endless stream of little plates. Paper plates don’t feel that special, and plastic is little wasteful, but cedar grilling planks make great little serving boards for apps and desse...

2016-12-09T19:00:00.000000Z
If you feel like shooting off a quick blog post, personal essay, or anonymous rant and don’t want to set up a whole new blog on something like Wordpress, IO offers a simple an elegant solution to publish your writing online, no account required.Read more...

2016-12-10T03:17:00.000000Z
Anyone can ride in a spaceship or serve as a politician, but class is rare. Glenn had class -- something that seems sorely lacking in this crassest of American eras. Cartoon by Ted Rall.

2016-12-10T03:11:00.000000Z
Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos addresses the crowd in Michigan. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) Betsy DeVos, the nominee for Education Secretary, said “it’s time to make education great again” as part of President-Elect Donald Trump’s “thank you tour” at a rally Friday night near her hometown of...

2016-12-10T01:17:00.000000Z
Have injured players to replace? Starters on a bye this week? Here are some sleeper running backs that have the potential to thrive for you and your fantasy football team in Week 12 of the 2016 NFL Season.

2016-12-10T01:09:00.000000Z
The end is nigh for Italy’s most troubled bank. Trading in the shares of Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena (MPS) was suspended today when the share price tumbled on news that the ECB had refused to give the bank an additional five weeks to raise 5bn euros in new capital. [...]

2016-12-10T01:00:00.000000Z
In September South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned leaders around Asia about nuclear weapons in North Korea across her border. Eighteen countries had signed a statement on nonproliferation at a summit in Laos. Park, the south’s first female president and a source of hope for the fragile young ...